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Based on Stephen King's novella, "1922" is intense horror drama with deadly consequences. Thomas Jane is incredible as Wilfred James, a farmer with bad intentions. This is one of the better recent Stephen King adaptations, like "It" (2017) and "Gerald's Game" (2017). Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" seems like the inspiration for this gruesome story that is truly haunting and disturbing. If murder in movies doesn't creep you out, I'm sure the rats will.

This King adaptation comes off as very dry & direct which doesn't really do much to animate the story. It's not a bad horror story or a badly made horror film just feels weirdly flat & emotionless. Achieves a sufficiently creepy atmosphere but the drama never really penetrates the cold artifice of its surface. Same can be said of the acting which feels too theatrical. I must confess that I had a good nap during a large chunk of the middle act but I didn't feel like I really missed anything.

At times, the atmostphere and tone are nailed perfectly and Thomas Jane (incidentally, one of my favorites) is clearly giving it his all, but there's simply not enough meat in this movie. The creepy parts are sparse, the remainder is slow and boring. And never is it actually scary.

Chronicle of a hell of a year. Jane's solid, often brilliant performance makes the case for SK adaptation about a greedy rural man who convinces his only son to help him kill his wife so he can mantain the land and prosper. The man inside the man is capable of the most hideous things. He ends up with no wife or kid or land. And terrorized by rats and ghost of his wife. It works better as a psychopath drama than psychological horror.

A simple but twisted story that offers a lot of suspense and drama. Mom is sick of life on the farm and wants out, and Dad is determined to preserve his farm heritage by any means necessary. Great cast and good performances with lots of tension and irony. Convincing and entertaining despite being written by Stephen King. I can only assume that Zak Kilditch saved it with copious edits.

although i enjoyed jane's rugged performance and looks, he often overshot. the rest of cast & crew didn't do much in any direction. storywise...well, it's typical king. good idea, bad execution, occasional glimpse of light. i guess if someone were to come up with a slogan for netflix, it'd be along the lines of "because what else have you got to do?"